Anyone who's a renter has at least one landlord-related horror story. It could be that your house doesn't meet the normal safety regulations, that your landlord just jacked up the rent 15 percent or that they're starting to play dumb when it comes to returning your security deposit. Whatever the case, navigating the District's tenant/landlord laws and regulations -- no matter how weighted towards tenants they might be -- can sometimes be confusing and frustrating.......

When news broke last week that the Lerner family was witholding rent payments on the new baseball stadium because they claimed it wasn't fully complete, many residents were predictably peeved. But today the Post is reporting that the D.C. Council may take a step that will similarly annoy everyone else who attends Nats games -- they might raise taxes on tickets and concessions to cover the rent shortfall. The legislation, introduced during one of the......

Though a puzzling choice for director, Chris Columbus' screen adaptation of Rent worked because it took a show that hadn't aged well and set it firmly in the 80s, easing its audience from the outset through the parts that felt dated. The same trick works for Sherry Glaser's one woman show, Family Secrets, now being staged at Theater J. In this production, in which the actress plays five members of a Jewish family in......

It's one of the peculiarities of the interaction between economics and politics that the idea of price controls is roundly dismissed as a wrongheaded remnant of command economies while rent control maintains a prominent place in urban political debates. Economists hate the policy, with good reason, but political calculus makes it very difficult to get rid of the idea once and for all. So it is that an updated rent control policy has gained traction......

A couple of months back we posted information on a pre-sale for tickets to see the Foo Fighters in a special, one night only show at the 9:30 Club. Needless to say, our decision wasn't met with kind words from the band's "real" fans, who proceeded to leave us all types of dirty comments and even went as far as to post the address of yours truly on a 9:30 Club Forum thread. So when......

The D.C. Tenants' Advocacy Coalition will be holding a Candidates Forum this Thursday, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Charles Sumner Museum School at 1201 17th St. NW. The organization's website doesn't specify which candidates will be attending, however DCist expects an exclectic mix of attendees after spotting a number of flyers avertising the event around town over the past two weeks. The black-and-white flyers read "Care about Rent Control? Care about skyrocketing Rents?......